Allstate Taps Union Pacific General Counsel as Top Lawyer Successor

Allstate Taps Union Pacific General Counsel as Top Lawyer Successor

https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2020/08/31/allstate-taps-union-pacific-general-counsel-as-top-lawyer-successor/?slreturn=20200905010132 Allstate Taps Union Pacific General Counsel as Top Lawyer Successor Rhonda Ferguson, most recently the executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Union Pacific Railroad headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, will join Allstate in Northbrook, Illinois, as executive vice president and general counsel Sept. 28.

House Transportation Committee 

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Alliant Feel Good Code of Ethics and Compliance Statement

Code of Ethics and Compliance Statement

 

Alliant is committed to conducting its business in adherence to all legal requirements established by the states and territories in which it provides services and products. Alliant takes pride in maintaining the highest ethical standards and industry best practices. To this end, Alliant places the best interests of its clients as paramount to any other concerns involved in the placement of insurance services and products. Specifically, Alliant:

 

• Abides by its ethical obligations to deliver honest, competitive, and meaningful service and advice on the placement of any insurance products, services, or coverages, and strives to provide access to an open, fair, and competitive insurance market place;
• Exercises due diligence in making full and complete disclosures of all quotes and declinations from all markets contacted for each specific line of coverage, including the date and time of contact, the name, address, phone number, and to the extent available, email address of the individual contact for each market;
• Makes every good faith effort to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest between Alliant, its clients, and/or any provider of any insurance products or services, and promptly notifies clients of any real or potential conflict; and
• Takes reasonable steps to ensure that any available commission rates are provided to its clients upon request, including the identification of the appropriate contact sources from which to obtain commission rate information on the insurance policies issued.

About Alliant Products and source of Investment Fund

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Michael L. Tipsord is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Michael L. Tipsord is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. State Farm® and its affiliates are the largest providers of auto, home and individual life insurance in the United States.

More than 19,000 agents and 70,000 employees live the State Farm mission to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams.

Alongside the State Farm senior executive leadership team, Michael is driving State Farm to demonstrate unsurpassed value to customers and grow the business in an expanding, evolving and increasingly complex marketplace.

Michael was named chief executive officer in Sept. 2015 and president earlier the same year. He was elected chairman of the board of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in June 2016.

Michael began his State Farm career in 1988 and served in a number of leadership roles including vice chairman of the board, chief operating officer and chief financial officer.

A native of Illinois, Michael received a bachelor's degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill., and a law degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter® (CPCU) designation in 1995, the Chartered Life Underwriter® (CLU) designation in 1991, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

He also serves on the board of directors for Navigant Consulting, Inc. He is a trustee of the Brookings Institution and is a member of the dean's advisory board for the University of Illinois College of Law. Michael is also a member of the American Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association.

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When Lowes Comes to Town, Piedmont Lumber Burns Down

When Lowes Comes to Town, Piedmont Lumber Burns Down

Piedmont Lumber, San Bruno Fire, La Virage, FedEx, Limo's, Pipelines, Schools, New Construction, Tunnels and more.

Piedmont Lumber
Lowes
Home Depot

When your main branch burns to the ground you've finally lost all your ground, you're out of cash, your revenues smashed, the press comes in to your blame you for not having cash.

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Lowes Concord

Grand Opening Summer 2009

The opening the Concord Lowes timing rather coincidence to the urban changes in Contra Costa County where businesses are targeted and destroyed

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Piedmont Fire

February 2010

The highly suspicious fire that many call arson but my vantage point being an arson victim points to the Investment Community and Investors that come to town and everything burns down.

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Piedmont Lumber

Since 1934

When Lowes Comes To Town Piedmont Lumber Burns Down

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Home Depot Concord

Grand Opening 1999

The opening the Concord Home Depot arrived in the 90s setting the ground work for acquiring new business but as the new economy tanked in the late 2000s there were too many lumber yards in Contra Costa County

About the Author

Resident of Contra Costa Since 1978

Pete Bennett arrived in Contra Costa in June 1978 where he began working for local contractors where he created work by hustling leaves, pushing paint, endless runs to the dump, moving dirt and grime while turning sweat into money.

Along the way he went for his dream of owning a woodworking shop but the shop grew rapidly after leasing a small 1000 SF shop in Concord in less than a year he purhchased an existing shop on Shary Circle.

He used to wear suits now he wears C-Collars

By 1987 his "woodworking shop" expanding to 9000sf with millions in future revenue on the horizon when tragedy struck in a personal injury case in the Matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific

He lost his suits when his dry cleaner committed suicide around the time he was appearing on CNN

His business eventually collapse in connection to rouge police officers connected to the City of Pittsburg where Bennett was forced out of business by external forces.
One key factor was the pattern of incidents and breakins which included Arson

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